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Hi All, Have just made a lovely batch of Orange and Pecan (actually walnut!) grain free granola from the ditchthecarbs website. When I came to count the carbs I get a very different result to the original recipe. My calorie count is very similar tho. My carbs have come up as half of what they...

Has anyone tried the Granola recipe from the Vikki de Beer book? I'm sure I followed the recipe but it's been in the oven for far longer than she says and it's still wet? Just had some in yoghurt and it tasted great but definitely not Granola as I know it!

Want to try a low carb pastry recipe from the Vikki de Beer book. She asks for 3tbs of husks, I've got ground? Would I change the amount does anyone think?

Hi all, Enjoying the lo carb cooking but getting through a heck of a lot of flax seeds and ground almonds. Where are you all (UK) buying for best value?

Just wondering how much people needed to alter their basal when going lower carb? On 8.5 Tresiba had 25 carbs for dinner which should have needed about 2U but was only on 5mm so waited. Dinner +2hrs 7.3 waited again dinner plus 5 hours 5.2. I'm assuming the basal brought it down. What would...

Hi All, New here but have enjoyed reading the posts and have learned a lot. My husband is type 1 (actually 3c learned that here) and got fed up with the constantly swinging BS so decided to give low carb a go. It's working well he's on about 40-50 carbs a day - about half of what he had before...

Hi, Anyone out there on Rivastigmine for Alzheimers? My husband is and we're getting some v high BGs. 18.7 half an hour ago for no apparent reason? Anyone?

Hi, Took first injection of Tresiba last night - 9 units (was on Detemir 5 + 5.5) so starting conservatively. Went to bed on 5.7 with handful of nuts. Woke on 6.1. Looking at the Freestyle graph the lowest reading during the night looks about 4.5. As Tresiba is supposed to last up to 40 hours...

Doing battle with 2am drops in BG, catching most at 4mmol ish. Looking back through notes trying to find a pattern. My husband is on Detemir was on 6.5 night 9pm and 6 day 9am. Have reduced the night twice now on 5. The day one is now 5.5 after a couple of days of late afternoon 4.4mmol BGs. The...

My aim is to get the end BG to match the start BG!!! Ambitious I know. How the basal comes into it is confusing me. If the injection is taken at 8am and it takes 5 hours to get back to the starting BG is the action time 5 hours (and the insulin to carb ratio was correct) OR does the basal take...

Husband has just injected 5 slow Detemir instead of 5 Novorapid. He would be taking 6 slow at 9.30 (it's now 6.30). What shall we do? Take the fast now and just 1 Detemir at 9.30?

Anyone had any issues with the pens showing a different number on the display when checking to what was injected?

We're still struggling with ups and downs. decided to try to work out an accurate (LOL) correction dose by trying to find the action time of the Novarapid. so 4pm 12.5BG still half a unit of IOB Target of 7mmol so 12.5 - 7 = 5.5/2= 2.75 Assuming 1U would drop BG by 2mm per unit so injected 3...

Having a very weird day. Woke on 3.3 took a dextrose tab then 20 mins later a 42 carb breakfast wholemeal bread, eggs, tomatoes waited 20 mins before taking 10 units using 1:3.5 12units - 2 for the low. At 9.30 4.5mm took 3 dex as reasoned the insulin was still working. At 12.30 3.00 took 3...

Had a go at basal testing last night using 'Think Like a Pancreas' Chicken and veg dinner at 7, 22 carbs 4 units. 10pm test 6, 2.30am test 6.8, 6.40am 4.6, drank coffee, 9.20am 5.7. It looks like the current basal of 14U Detemir night and morning doesn't need to change but the BS aren't steady...

Am struggling to get my husband's BS under control (he has cognitive impairment so is being bloody awkward) but have bought Thinking Like a Pancreas and we're going to do the basal testing tonight, wish us luck! A friend asked me yesterday why we don't go to the doctor and ask to see a diabetic...

Hi all, after a long time on a ratio of 1:9 I now appear to need 1:4 any thoughts as to why?

Hi everyone. Having real issues with very high BS after having been quite stable for a long time. Have used a 1:9 ratio which appears to have gone berserk over the last week so am rethinking everything and testing every 2 hours then trying to analyse the results. BS 14 at 0900 took 5 Novorapid...